Anthropic wanted a blanket exclusion on “analyzing bulk data collected from Americans?” Government could never agree to that. Could mean so many things. The more I read about this the more it seems like Anthropic was 999 miles away from actually closing a deal.
Max Zeff
Max Zeff20 hours ago
The Atlantic reports that the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic’s AI for some type of surveillance of Americans. Given the ways some companies are already using AI today to surveil their own employees’s emails, chats, etc., I find this kind of use to be particularly disturbing
Deals blow up over terms that are 100x closer than this. If they hadn’t agreed to terms this broad at the last minute there was a 0% chance a deal was getting signed.
There’s just no world where, “How can we use and analyze data” was going to be a last-minute consideration in this deal. Negotiations didn’t end last minute. They hadn’t even really begun.
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